EC2 to VPC: A transition worth doing.
Kiip recently completed a migration from EC2 to VPC. VPC exited beta and became generally available in all regions in August, and allows you to provision compute nodes within a virtual network in AWS. For anything more than simple websites, we believe migrating to VPC is something worth doing, or at the very least worth investigating.
Because Amazon VPC is a new service and requires a substantial amount of domain knowledge, this article will first cover a quick intro to the benefits and parts of building a VPC. Specific details about our VPC architecture here at Kiip, tooling we’ve built around it, and our migration process will be covered in future posts.
